Murray Schisgal Papers, 1964-1968
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Summary Information
Title: Murray Schisgal Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1964-1968

Creator:
  • Schisgal, Murray, 1926-
Call Number: U.S. Mss 163AN

Quantity: 1.6 c.f (4 archives boxes)

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

Archival Locations:
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.
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Abstract:
Papers of playwright Murray Schisgal, consisting entirely of drafts of the play Jimmy Shine (1968). Later versions of the script bear rehearsal, actors', and director's notes.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0163an
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Biography/History

Playwright Murray Schisgal was born in New York City on November 25, 1926. After his service as a radioman in the Navy from 1944 to 1946, Schisgal was employed for a short time as a musician. In 1953 he graduated from Brooklyn Law School, and later worked as an attorney and as a junior high school teacher in New York City. Schisgal and his wife, the former Reene Schapiro, currently (1976) live in New York City.

During the 1960's, Schisgal wrote a number of comedies and one-act plays, many of which were first produced in Europe. The Typists and The Tiger, his first two one-act plays to be produced in the United States, appeared off-Broadway in 1963. Other plays included A Simple Kind of Love Story (1960), Ducks and Lovers (1961), Luv (1965), Fragments (1967), The Basement (1967), and Jimmy Shine (1968). Jimmy Shine (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, December 5, 1968) was a two-act play starring Dustin Hoffman as a frustrated painter; it was produced by Claire Nichtern and Zev Bufman.

Scope and Content Note

The Murray Schisgal Papers consist of twenty-nine drafts of Jimmy Shine, illustrating the play's evolution from its inception in 1964 to the final script in 1968. The scripts are arranged in chronological order and often contain the author's notes and corrections. Later drafts include rehearsal, actors', and director's notes.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Murray Schisgal, New York, New York, December 31, 1969. Accession Number: MCHC69-150


Processing Information

Processed by Susan Sharlin, January 22, 1976.


Contents List
Jimmy Shine scripts
Box   1
Folder   1
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 92 pages; 1964, Apr 7
Box   1
Folder   2
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 92 pages; 1964, Apr 14
Box   1
Folder   3
Original typewritten with author's signature on the title page; 120 pages; 1964, Spring
Box   1
Folder   4
Original typewritten with author's signature on title page; 127 pages; 1964, Spring
Box   1
Folder   5
Original manuscript typewritten with author's corrections and notes; 93 pages; 1964, Nov 30
Box   1
Folder   6
Original manuscript typewritten with author's corrections and notes; 93 pages; 1964, Dec 7
Box   1
Folder   7
Original manuscript typewritten with author's corrections and notes; 95 pages; 1964, Dec 16
Box   1
Folder   8
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 96 pages; 1964, Dec 26
Box   1
Folder   9
Duplicate with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 96 pages; 1964, Dec 26
Box   2
Folder   1
Original typewritten; 98 pages; 1965, Jan 19
Box   2
Folder   2
Original typewritten of the rewritten second act, with the author's manuscript corrections and notes; 112 pages; 1965, Sept 30
Box   2
Folder   3
Original typewritten with the author's manuscript corrections and notes; 113 pages; 1966, Feb 10
Box   2
Folder   4
Original typewritten, second draft, with author's signature on title page; 121 pages; 1966, Feb 10
Box   2
Folder   5
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 93 pages; 1966, Feb 25
Box   2
Folder   6
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 91 pages; 1966, Mar 7
Box   2
Folder   7
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 67 pages; 1967, Apr 15
Box   2
Folder   8
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 73 pages; 1967, July 6
Box   2
Folder   9
Original typewritten, second draft, with author's signature on title page; 95 pages; 1967, July 6
Box   2
Folder   10
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 82 pages; 1968, Feb 7
Box   2
Folder   11
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 85 pages; 1968, Feb 18
Box   3
Folder   1
Original manuscript notes typewritten with author's manuscript notes on title page; 119 pages; 1968, Spring
Box   3
Folder   2
Duplicate with author's signature on title page; 119 pages; 1968, Spring
Box   3
Folder   3
Original typewritten with author's copious manuscript corrections and notes; 109 pages; 1968, July 1
Box   3
Folder   4
Original typewritten with author's manuscript corrections and notes; 84 pages; 1968, Aug
Box   3
Folder   5
Original typewritten with author's signature on title page; 123 pages; 1968, Sept
Box   3
Folder   6
Original typewritten with author's copious manuscript corrections and notes and author's signature on title page (rehearsal copy); 155 pages; 1968, Nov
Box   3
Folder   7
Original typewritten with notes and rewrites of rehearsal manuscript for out-of-town performances, with author's copious manuscript corrections and notes; 143 pages; 1968, Nov
Box   4
Folder   1
Original typewritten with author's copious manuscript corrections and notes, actor's notes, directorial notes, production suggestions, and further rewrites, written during out-of-town performances; 218 pages; 1968, Nov
Box   4
Folder   2
Original typewritten with author's signature on title page (final script); 103 pages; 1968, Dec 5